Michael Kiernan, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Boston, MANPI 1891985933
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $23,244 of the $33,191 with a category attached, or 70.0%. Medtronic accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $12,932 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $250 in 2025.
Across 67 payments — averaging $495.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$24K
- Abiomed$5K
- Abbott$2K
- Cvrx, Inc.$620
- Transmedics, Inc.$439
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$334
- plus $298 from 6 others
Across 89 payments — averaging $4962.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Endotronix, Inc.$260K
- Medtronic$99K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$78K
- Abiomed$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,2507%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,24470%
- Travel & lodging$4,34013%
- Food & beverage$3,35610%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $24,446 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $4,638 |
| Abbott | 17 | $2,416 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 4 | $620 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $439 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $334 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $178 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $35 |
| One Lambda, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- HeartWare HVAD$13,337
- Impella$4,573
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,552
- Arctic Front$975
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$592
- Barostim Neo System$538
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$439
- SherpaPak$334
- LIVERguard$334
- LUNGguard$334
- BaroGuard$334
- PancreasPak$334
How this compares
$33,191 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 12 | $263,555 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 79 | $108,071 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 49 | $68,931 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 29 | $29,122 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 27 | $26,699 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 18 | $25,621 |
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $23,395 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 12 | $8,857 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 16 | $8,205 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 12 | $6,953 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $6,743 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 120 | $1,459 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 64 | $1,396 |
| Torsemide | 44 | $1,317 |
| Tacrolimus | 11 | $1,121 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis | $178 | $286,95028 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $14 | $108,07179 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $35 | $68,93149 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $23 | $29,12229 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $16 | $8,85712 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
Other cardiovascular disease in Boston
- Marc SabatineBoston$3.9M
- Elizabeth NabelBoston$2.2M
- Kenneth RosenfieldBoston$1.4M
- James JanuzziBoston$1.1M
- Muthiah VaduganathanBoston$972K
- Joseph LoscalzoBoston$926K
- Sunil KapurBoston$823K
- Paul ZeiBoston$786K
- Paul RidkerBoston$572K
- Ignacio Inglessis-AzuajeBoston$545K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.